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What will be the outcome?

  • UC wins by 15+

    Votes: 10 30.3%

  • UC wins by 10-14

    Votes: 13 39.4%

  • UC wins by 1-9

    Votes: 8 24.2%

  • Temple wins

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • Total voters
    33
Jenifer was really bothered by Temple's length in the first game. I believe he had two simple point to wing passes stolen by his defender. Having Cane back should help, but I'd also like to see us start our offense out higher, with ball screens 25 feet out. That can create more space for dribble penetration, though it also puts pressure on the ballhandler and can cause turnovers if poor decisions are made. We used high ball screens a lot for SK in his senior year, and for Troy in late clock situations last year. I think they could really work for us in this game, especially with Kyle as the screener due to his pick and pop ability.
 
sedziobs said:
Jenifer was really bothered by Temple's length in the first game. I believe he had two simple point to wing passes stolen by his defender. Having Cane back should help, but I'd also like to see us start our offense out higher, with ball screens 25 feet out. That can create more space for dribble penetration, though it also puts pressure on the ballhandler and can cause turnovers if poor decisions are made. We used high ball screens a lot for SK in his senior year, and for Troy in late clock situations last year. I think they could really work for us in this game, especially with Kyle as the screener due to his pick and pop ability.
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This is purely speculation based on my own eyes, but it just seems opponents get better looks/make more 3's against Jenifer than on Broome. Even ECU, 2/3 by 55 came against Jenifer, like they know he isn't a close out or defensive threat. Could just be how things look on the floor and rotation wise, but half court defense, it feels we make bigger stops with Broome on the floor.

To me tonight comes down to defense, Temple had Enechionyia start hot at their place with some open shots - quickly get us in a hole. Just clamp down on defense, don't let Alston pop in 3's, and we should just grind them into a 10-15 point halftime deficit.

In three conference home games, we've shot 53%, 45% and 41% (compared to 39, 51 and 35 on the road) - so I expect us to shoot well enough to make this a comfortable win.

We had 16 turnovers at Temple, the most in the 6 conference games (11, 9, 9, 8, 7 are the other five games). Just more signs we should play our game and win handily.
 
sedziobs said:
Jenifer was really bothered by Temple's length in the first game. I believe he had two simple point to wing passes stolen by his defender. Having Cane back should help, but I'd also like to see us start our offense out higher, with ball screens 25 feet out. That can create more space for dribble penetration, though it also puts pressure on the ballhandler and can cause turnovers if poor decisions are made. We used high ball screens a lot for SK in his senior year, and for Troy in late clock situations last year. I think they could really work for us in this game, especially with Kyle as the screener due to his pick and pop ability.
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Definitely agree.
 
So lower TO than the first game, playing at home, having Broome this time, expecting a better game from Cumberland. Not bad to potentially have all of this in our favor against a team we already beat.
 
jacobkdoyle said:
So lower TO than the first game, playing at home, having Broome this time, expecting a better game from Cumberland. Not bad to potentially have all of this in our favor against a team we already beat.
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and to play a little devil's advocate, temple didn't exactly play great the first game either. 32.1 % from the floor, 26.1% from 3.


man that was one awful game from both sides. i can see a scenario where we blow them out, and i can see a scenario where its close all game. i dont want to see a scenario where we lose, but that game we lost to them here a couple years ago they put up 1.28 ppp with a team that was similar to this one.
 
They scored 88 against Auburn, 1.21 ppp. They won by 14 despite negative rebounding and turnover margins. Hard to tell what you're going to get from Temple.
 
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cincrulz11 said:
and to play a little devil's advocate, temple didn't exactly play great the first game either. 32.1 % from the floor, 26.1% from 3.


man that was one awful game from both sides. i can see a scenario where we blow them out, and i can see a scenario where its close all game. i dont want to see a scenario where we lose, but that game we lost to them here a couple years ago they put up 1.28 ppp with a team that was similar to this one.
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I think we tend to do that type of thing to most teams we play. Maybe not quite that bad...but we do. They are like #96 in D and we are #2. They should not be holding us in the 50's...but I guess they have Cronin figured out.

I expect this game to be more comfortable
 
These late 9pm start times suck.


Usually I have a routine of leaving directly from work to go to the games at 7. As a dude who get way too excited for gameday, I hate having to wait all damn day before I can even leave to go to the game.

Not too mention, that if its a close game and I can't leave with 2 minutes left, Ill be stuck in traffic til well past midnight
 
justinhub2003 said:
These late 9pm start times suck.


Usually I have a routine of leaving directly from work to go to the games at 7. As a dude who get way too excited for gameday, I hate having to wait all damn day before I can even leave to go to the game.

Not too mention, that if its a close game and I can't leave with 2 minutes left, Ill be stuck in traffic til well past midnight
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Apologies to row D and F in 204, but you can't expect me to be sober with a 9pm tip...
 
justinhub2003 said:
These late 9pm start times suck.


Usually I have a routine of leaving directly from work to go to the games at 7. As a dude who get way too excited for gameday, I hate having to wait all damn day before I can even leave to go to the game.

Not too mention, that if its a close game and I can't leave with 2 minutes left, Ill be stuck in traffic til well past midnight
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Justin I agree completely. I actually almost gave my tickets away. I'm old! It's hard for me to stay up past 0900 at my age. Lol!! That is a hard thing to face. You youngsters better keep this in mind. Once upon a time in my life I would walk across the state of Texas to sleep with a women. Now days I have trouble making it from the couch to the bedroom. Lol!!!!!!
 
cincrulz11 said:
and to play a little devil's advocate, temple didn't exactly play great the first game either. 32.1 % from the floor, 26.1% from 3.


man that was one awful game from both sides. i can see a scenario where we blow them out, and i can see a scenario where its close all game. i dont want to see a scenario where we lose, but that game we lost to them here a couple years ago they put up 1.28 ppp with a team that was similar to this one.
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Just to play devils advocate to the devils advocate. Their offense has a higher propensity to shoot like that than ours. They've shot 46% from 2 and 36% from 3 on the year, meanwhile we have shot 51% and 39%, respectively. We also assist on 13% more baskets than they do, our A/TO ratio as a team is better, 1.37 vs 1.07. And to cap it off we even rebound 42% of our own misses (a stat I didn't realize, and sounds very impressive in itself), to their 31%. We are a better offensive team than them, flat out. The only way the beat us is if we play horrible.
 
Forever an optimist, I don't have too much fear about this game being all that close. We are a completely different team at home, no way in hell do they beat us. And I'd be very surprised to see them even within single digits after 5 minutes into the second half. 72-56 final score
 
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Justin I agree completely. I actually almost gave my tickets away. I'm old! It's hard for me to stay up past 0900 at my age. Lol!! That is a hard thing to face. You youngsters better keep this in mind. Once upon a time in my life I would walk across the state of Texas to sleep with a women. Now days I have trouble making it from the couch to the bedroom. Lol!!!!!!
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I’m 33 now with an insane 3 year old, I’ve never been more exhausted in my life.

I’ll be drinking coffee before the game not beer.

On another, I’ve been super happy with my seats in section 208. In my old Bearcat lair seats in fifth third, I would prob just watch from home on a game like tonight
 
Jon Rycek said:
Just to play devils advocate to the devils advocate. Their offense has a higher propensity to shoot like that than ours. They've shot 46% from 2 and 36% from 3 on the year, meanwhile we have shot 51% and 39%, respectively. We also assist on 13% more baskets than they do, our A/TO ratio as a team is better, 1.37 vs 1.07. And to cap it off we even rebound 42% of our own misses (a stat I didn't realize, and sounds very impressive in itself), to their 31%. We are a better offensive team than them, flat out. The only way the beat us is if we play horrible.
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we are flat out better than them period.


but temple is a team thats just all over the map from to game.


the game i was referencing 2 years ago when they put up 1.28 ppp vs us, that temple team shot worse from the floor than the one they have this year. but sometimes teams just get hot, nothing you can do about it.


temple isn't consistent, but when they put it together for a night they can be pretty good. auburn, clemson, and smu know all about that
 

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